novelist

Harper Lee

American novelist best known for her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird

Laurie Lee

English poet, novelist and screenwriter, who was brought up in the small village of Slad in Gloucestershire

Russell Kirk

American political theorist, moralist, historian, social critic, and literary critic, known for his influence on 20th-century American conservatism

James Lees-Milne

English writer and expert on country houses, who worked for the National Trust from 1936 to 1973. He was an architectural historian, novelist and biographer

Milan Kundera

Czech writer who went into exile in France in 1975, becoming a naturalised French citizen in 1981. Kundera’s Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979; he received his Czech citizenship in 2019. He “sees himself as a French writer and insists his work should be studied as French literature and classified as such in book stores”.Kundera’s best-known work is The Unbearable Lightness of Being